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Kathryn Joosten

Joosten was born in Chicago. Her first career was as a psychiatric nurse at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, living in nearby Lake Forest, Illinois, where she married a psychiatrist and raised two sons. Following her 1980 divorce, she began acting in community theater in 1982, at age 42.

Filmography

2008
Bedtime Stories

as Mrs. Dixon

Movie
2004
Desperate Housewives

as Karen McCluskey

TV Show
1999
The West Wing

as Dolores Landingham

TV Show